05-28-2009, 02:46 PM
So true! Who will remember. To the todays youth, it is nothing but history.
I had 2 good friends, Ben Blackmon and Joe Fitcher, both Pearl Harbor survivors. Ben is now gone. Tyler, Tx has a large gathering at Memorial Park in town with both state and national congressmen. I missed going the year this happened. They have chairs in an open-sided tent. Joe suddenly started having a heat stroke, and Ben asked if one of a bunch of teens sitting there if he could have a seat. They just sat there and looked at him like he was asking for their car. Joe ended up sitting on the ground under a tree while the teens sat and looked at him. These men were well into their 80s. Doesn't say much for kids nowadays.
I wrote a pretty scathing letter to the local paper about this ocurrence. The bad remarks I got were that I didn't blast away as much as they would like. My wife was sit manager for Meals On Wheels at the time, and that is where we got to know those MEN.
Oh, well, don't get me started.
Lynn
I had 2 good friends, Ben Blackmon and Joe Fitcher, both Pearl Harbor survivors. Ben is now gone. Tyler, Tx has a large gathering at Memorial Park in town with both state and national congressmen. I missed going the year this happened. They have chairs in an open-sided tent. Joe suddenly started having a heat stroke, and Ben asked if one of a bunch of teens sitting there if he could have a seat. They just sat there and looked at him like he was asking for their car. Joe ended up sitting on the ground under a tree while the teens sat and looked at him. These men were well into their 80s. Doesn't say much for kids nowadays.
I wrote a pretty scathing letter to the local paper about this ocurrence. The bad remarks I got were that I didn't blast away as much as they would like. My wife was sit manager for Meals On Wheels at the time, and that is where we got to know those MEN.
Oh, well, don't get me started.
Lynn
Whitehouse, Tx